Main Event Entertainment vs SmartBee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Main Event Entertainment
Enhance your entertainment experiences with easy event management. Skip lines, manage fun cards, book reservations, and gather your group for meals with a simple tap. Discover exclusive mobile offers and make every moment count.
- Fun card management and refill
- Book bowling reservations
- Ring the Dinner Bell feature
- Add and personalize physical fun cards
- Access special mobile offers
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The Main Event app is a simple way to continue your amazing experiences and simplify your Main Event logistics. Spend more time on love and not in the lines with our features like fun card management & refill, booking bowling reservations, and Ring the Dinner Bell. That's not all as there are special mobile offers and much much more! What is "Ring the Dinner Bell" you ask? Time to gather everyone for a meal? Well just Ring the Dinner Bell to pause play and bring everyone to the table for priceless phones-down fun. Trying to keep track of all your family's fun cards? Add everyone's physical cards to your account and personalize them with unique designs.
SmartBee
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Analogous to those cookies with a joke inside you get after dining out in a Chinese restaurant, SmartBee takes it further. SmartBee contains more than one hundred thousand different cookies. Everything from Murphy's laws, Devil's Dictionary, myths, jokes, computer mimics, facts, stories, jargons, deep thoughts and not to forget - quotes from famous people.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Main Event Entertainment at every 2 weeks against SmartBee's every 6 weeks. SmartBee's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Main Event Entertainment ships an update every 2 weeks, SmartBee every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Main Event Entertainment | SmartBee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (8.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 19.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 271 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dave & Buster's inc. | Sveinar Rasmussen |
Bugs and requests
Main Event Entertainment
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login issues
- Booking and reservation problems
- Card balance and history not working
- Crashes and freezes
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Allow adding any amount to Fun Card
- Improve Fun Card management experience
SmartBee
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Main Event Entertainment
No in-app purchases
SmartBee
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Main Event Entertainment free?
Is SmartBee free?
Do Main Event Entertainment or SmartBee have ads?
Which is updated more often, Main Event Entertainment or SmartBee?
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